Posted in art, buildings, christmas_2009, decor, furniture, here, location, seasons, time on November 29th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m my mother’s son. Yesterday K. kindly let me put the decorations up. I spend every November awaiting the start of December, fidgeting in my seat like a little kid in need of a wee. Christmas lunch with my Granddad last week for his birthday finally made her acquiesce to a slightly early start to [...]
Posted in commerce, consumers, consumption, cotswolds, environment, furniture, location, society, time on November 29th, 2009 6 Comments »
Witney’s branch of Cargo closed recently. Fair enough, I thought, but it did so only to reopen in a far bigger store space (where New Look used to be). I give it six months.
Cargo’s an odd store. It’s like something between an expensive Ikea for people unnerved by how the Swedish can implement elements of [...]
Posted in anniversaries, buildings, communication, computers, discomfort, emotions, far_away, kaputt, location, person, technology, telephony, time on November 27th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve never thought of myself as the sort of internet junkie that can’t last more than an hour or so without tweeting, blogging or checking something online. I tend to be a briefly toe-dipping early adopter, then later on a resolute if unenthusiastic long-term user of new technologies. The idea is that this nets me [...]
Posted in art, artists, arts_and_crafts, computers, far_away, future, genre, location, media, music, past, plagiarism, speculative_tech, technology, television, time on November 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Momus has discussed the late-70s/early-80s life and times of Alberto Camerini in a recent post. It was in the context of a recent BBC4 documentary Synth Britannia, and he helpfully links to the first ten minutes of the documentary for those of us who—sometimes to our pride, sometimes (like this one) to our shame—don’t have [...]
Posted in connecting, death, diary, experience, far_away, friends, location, person on November 13th, 2009 No Comments »
I was going to publish this article here, but he deserves more than mere pseudonymity. It should explain some of what I’ve been up to recently, anyway.
Posted in body, cotswolds, cycles, discomfort, environment, exercise, health, location, person, psychology, seasons, time, transport on November 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
When the weather isn’t miserable of an evening, the night-time commute makes for a good cycle. Before the light pollution in Witney really takes over the sky, the landscape is picked out in cool shades of blue-white: from the moon (when it’s around: it doesn’t make another appearance until the 17th or so) or from [...]
Posted in age, art, arts_and_crafts, commerce, family, industry, person, society on November 10th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve been trying with little success to buy a birthday card in Witney for my Granddad. The town has three card shops of note, not including gifty-wifty craft shops which sell cards with hand-affixed twine and sticks for the cost of a takeaway. You’d expect three shops to provide between them at least one card [...]
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